Recovery.gov relaunched today.

As someone who has spent a rather significant part of his professional life of late thinking about and working on how to explain the stimulus, I’m pretty impressed. The Where is the Money Going map in particular is well done. It’s slow and the interface needs some work, but it’s showing a great deal of very high detail data; this is the kind of work I’d expect from a hot new startup, not the federal government.

Also, yes this guy is exactly what you’d expect from a government bureaucrat, but he’s using YouTube to try to explain a massively complicated program. Give it a shot, you just might be proud of what you find.